ABRAY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. ABRAY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ABRAY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABRAY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABRAY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
abraysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ABRAY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ABRAY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does ABRAY mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicpoetic
To awake or start up suddenly, especially from sleep or a swoon.
Spenser used abray for the sudden movement of waking with a jolt, the same idea captured by the related and more common abraid. A character who abrays in an old romance has been startled out of sleep or unconsciousness rather than waking gently, and the word disappeared from ordinary use once plainer verbs like start or wake covered the same ground.
How ABRAY is used
Archaic and poetic; found in older romance and verse rather than in modern prose.
- The knight did abray from his swoon at the sound of the horn.
- She seemed to abray from a dream and looked wildly about her.
- The old tale has the sleeper abray at the touch of cold water.
- He would abray at every noise in the empty hall.
- The verse describes the giant beginning to abray from his long sleep.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABRAY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ABRAY
3 longer words begin with ABRAY.
Shorter words from the letters in ABRAY
Common questions about ABRAY
- Is ABRAY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ABRAY is not in it.
- How many points is ABRAY worth?
- ABRAY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABRAY mean?
- To awake or start up suddenly, especially from sleep or a swoon.
- What letters can be added to ABRAY?
- ABRAY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ABRAY:
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